Friends represent a world in us

waldemar parra + kai heumann
photo by Frizztext

Elizabeth Obih-Frank uses a quotation of Anais Nin in her blog at eof737.wordpress.com “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” Anais Nin

frizz-comment: I think this is related to the philosophy of dialogue as written down systematically by Martin Buber. Dialogs are like the child of couple: would not exist, if there would not have been such a meeting. If we meet other persons, there will be created another “BETWEEN” (German: “Zwischen”), another atmosphere, mood, topic, style of joy, humor, play …

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